author(s)
Ramesh Jaiswal, Umesh Chandra, MP Gautam, SK Yadav, SK Giri and Ramveer

abstract
The present investigation entitled “study on availability of bee flora and its foraging activities in eastern Uttar Pradesh”, was carried out on the honeybee foraging activities were recorded on different agricultural and horticulture crops during Rabi season 2016-17. It was observed that the bee-flora consists of mostly, fruits and agriculture crops like spices, pulses, cereals, oil seed/yielding, fiber, and fodder crops etc. Brassica rapa were the major agricultural bee crops of the area with flowering period of three (3) and four (4) months respectively. These plants species served as the excellent sources of pollen and nectar in the study area. The result revealed that 10 crops were useful to honeybees, out of which 5 crops were agricultural crops like as Mustard, pigeon pea, gram, bakla etc. and 4 horticulture crops like as mango, lemon, guava, anola and the forest plant like as eucalyptus, which are well distributed and commonly found in the study area. The identified flora was further grouped into pollen, nectar and both pollen and nectar yielding plants out of 5 agricultural bee crops, three (3) plants were nectar yielding, one (1) pollen yielding and six (6) plants species were both pollen and nectar yielding